You pretty much sum up how I feel about this thread. I'm staring at the same predicament as FoxPro. I've been officially terminated from my company and hired back as a consultant. And that gig will end eventually.
My solution was a little different. I went in with a group of systems people who have been let go and formed our own enterprise to target a specific tech market. Our chances of success are problematic at best. But the main similarity I see with FoxPro is that we're both essentially middlemen.
Over time, the offshore workers' kinks will be worked out. Their English language skills will improve, the business acumen will get better, the coding skills will get sharper and their overall business sophistication will improve. And beyond that, they will work cheaper still than they are now. The need and desire to have such middlemen as us will evaporate. And the client companies who utilize our services will know that.
I don't blame FoxPro for doing any of this. Indeed, his cleverness and innovation are the stuff of which fortunes can be built. But I don't see, for either of us, that we've accomplished anything more than redefine ourselves as a different version of overhead. And that's easily disposed of.
Much as I've enjoyed my tech career, I simply don't see a future in it. At all. And I've done it too long to easily jump to anything else.
Your post is so to the point, it is almost poetic. I wish you well and hope to meet you down the road.